Chinese Government provides a RMB 20 million grant — via a 2006 ETCA — for the acquisition of a customs inspection system (Linked to Project ID#85300)
Commitment amount
$ 5097474.625634294
Adjusted commitment amount
$ 5097474.63
Constant 2021 USD
Summary
Funding agency [Type]
China Ministry of Commerce [Government Agency]
Recipient
Georgia
Sector
Trade policies and regulations (Code: 330)
Flow type
Grant
Infrastructure
No
Category
Project lifecycle
Geography
Description
On April 11, 2006, the Chinese Government and the Government of Georgia signed an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA), in which the Chinese Government committed RMB 20 million in grant funding to provide x-ray customs scanners (a customs inspection system) to the Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia. The ultimate purpose of the project was to help Georgia’s Revenue Service improve customs clearance efficiency and combat smuggling. On March 28, 2008, Nuctech Company Limited and Georgia's Ministry of Finance signed an equipment provision contract in Tbilisi. According to the agreement, the Government of Georgia agreed to use the proceeds from this grant and an interest-free loan from the Chinese Government (see linked project ID#85300) to purchase a mobile container inspection system — a vehicle-mounted mobile container inspection system and 11 pieces of X-ray inspection equipment — from Nuctech Company Limited. Nuctech agreed to ship the equipment to Georgia before September 30, 2008, and assumed responsibility for its installation and commissioning. According to August 2018 email correspondence between Georgia’s Ministry of Finance and AidData, this project reached completion status on September 1, 2008. However, the official project handover ceremony was not held until February 13, 2009.
Additional details
No source explicitly names the Chinese Ministry of Commerce as the source of financing, but since this is an ETCA AidData has assumed it was and coded accordingly.
Number of official sources
5
Number of total sources
7
Details
Cofinanced
No
Direct receiving agencies [Type]
Revenue Service of the Ministry of Finance (Georgia) [Government Agency]
Implementing agencies [Type]
Nuctech Company Limited (Tongfang Vision Technology Co., Ltd.) [State-owned Company]